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Neural Correlates of a Trance Process and Alternative States of Consciousness in a Traditional Healer

Brain Sciences, 2021
Trance processes are a form of altered states of consciousness (ASC) widely reported across cultures. Entering these states is often linked to auditory stimuli such as singing, chanting, or rhythmic drumming.
Joseph Desouza, Rebecca Barnstaple
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Brain activity and the production of written text during mediumistic trance: A controlled EEG study. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
Mediumistic trance, studied as a cultural phenomenon, is considered an altered state of consciousness with dissociative and non-pathological characteristics.
Kleber Monteiro Pinto, Thaise G L de O Toutain, Hugo Saba, Marco Aurélio Vinhosa Bastos, Raphael Silva do Rosário, Jéssica Plácido, Naíma Loureiro, Valéria C Fernandes, José Garcia Vivas Miranda   +8 more
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Within-subject and between-subject variability in responses to a mind-body intervention in electrophysiological brain activity [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
IntroductionMind-body interventions (MBIs) increasingly used in health care include alterations in the ordinary state of consciousness that might be essential for their effects on psychological and physical patterns encoded in the unconscious.
Nina Zech, Martin Busch, Veronika Jaeger, Ernil Hansen   +3 more
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Trance states during a mind–body intervention monitored by BIS [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
IntroductionMind–body interventions are increasingly used in health care, both for physical and for psychological therapy. With directing the focus to the body and inner experiences they include elements of trance induction and hypnosis.
Nina Zech, Martin Busch, Veronika Jaeger, Ernil Hansen   +3 more
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Kesurupan Massal di Sekolah Menengah: Kerasukan Roh Jahat atau Emotional Contagion?

Psympathic: Jurnal Ilmiah Psikologi, 2022
This study aims to explore the phenomenon of mass trance in middle school. Previous studies in trance focused in individual psychological factors and view the trance as psychological disorder (hysteria).
Imaduddin Hamzah
doaj   +1 more source

The Effects of Dancing to Electronic Music and the Additional Intake of Psychoactive Drugs on the Experience of Trance

European Journal of Psychology Open, 2022
: Background: Dancing to music can induce states of trance as well as very pleasant or ecstatic experiences – particularly when the music is repetitive, monotonous, and rhythmic.
Thomas Schäfer, Patricia Kreuzburg
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Constitutive expression of TNF-related activation-induced cytokine (TRANCE)/receptor activating NF-κB ligand (RANK)-L by rat plasmacytoid dendritic cells. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
Plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) are a subset of DCs whose major function relies on their capacity to produce large amount of type I IFN upon stimulation via TLR 7 and 9.
Thomas Anjubault, Jérôme Martin, François-Xavier Hubert, Camille Chauvin, Dominique Heymann, Régis Josien   +5 more
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Being an assistant to a shaman

Ateliers d'Anthropologie, 2021
This article is built around the author’s experience as a shaman’s assistant. This autobiographical account touches upon the poverty, beliefs in ghosts, and shamanistic practices in a Limbu hamlet of Kalimpong, which is a piece of land between Sikkim and
Tanka Subba
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Stasis Leg Ulcers: Venous System Revises by Triggered Angiography Non-Contrast-Enhanced Sequence Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Diagnostics, 2020
Objectives: The distribution of venous pathology in stasis leg ulcers is unclear. The main reason for this uncertainty is the lack of objective diagnostic tools.
Chien-Wei Chen, Yuan-Hsi Tseng, Min Yi Wong, Chao-Ming Wu, Bor-Shyh Lin, Yao-Kuang Huang   +5 more
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Hypnosis measured with monitors of anesthetic depth – EEG changes during the test for Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
IntroductionHypnotic trance can be defined as a non-ordinary state of consciousness that is accompanied by a number of neurophysiological changes, including brain electrophysiology.
Nina Zech, Milena Seemann, Ernil Hansen
doaj   +1 more source